Normally when I catch wind of a product that promises to be “enhanced for this” or “optimized for that” I chalk it up to marketing spin and assume it’ll be priced higher than it should be with the hopes of duping casual consumers into buying it. Such was the case with the Freetalk Everyman Headset for Skype, a product that promises …
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Trailer for Transformers: War for Cybertron Just Blew My Mind
Truth be told, I was pleasantly surprised with Luxoflux’s Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, but now that I’ve seen High Moon’s War for Cybertron I feel ashamed for endorsing the title. Like, really ashamed. High Moon is best known for Darkwatch and Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Conspiracy. This trailer is not indicative of how the …
Who Knew Vader Could Dance?
Star Wars in France: I’d like to imagine this is what happened when George Lucas got stoned with Sonny and Cher, plus green screen access.
To me, there is nothing more pitifully adorable than bad homages caught on film, and this latest disaster to go semi-viral would certainly be up there on my list of them. The Star Wars franchise …
Flash 10.1 Running On Nexus One
Who’s excited for some Flash support on their Android or webOS device?
The A-Team Trailer: So That Happened
“One year ago … an elite commando unit … was sent to prison for a crime they didn’t commit.”
Unlike most people watching this trailer, I’m actually interested in the informational content of the voice-over. That’s because I never saw the original “A-Team.” In the part of your brain where you’re supposed to have hours and hours of …
The Techland Show: CES Edition (Sorta)
The Nexus One. The Microsoft tablet. The Consumer Electronics Show. All big stories in the news this week.
All utterly foreign to me.
I’m the TV and movie dude. But with Peter in Vegas, I decided to try my hand at talking gadgets. The results were not pretty. (Watch Peter Ha’s CES Report on the Nexus One and HP Slate here)
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Breaking Down the HP Slate, Nexus One
Gadgets were big news this week with Google announcing their android phone and Microsoft introducing a surprise tablet device at CES.
First impressions of the HP Slate is that it’s underwhelming. While most expected something along the lines of The Courier, a live journal-like device that nerds are excited about, instead they produced …
Virtual Console Classics vs. WiiWare Remixes
One of the best aspects of the Nintendo Wii is the ability to download old-school NES games for $5 a pop. But a trend’s been emerging lately; some classic old franchises are making their way into the WiiWare downloads section, a section that’s normally reserved for games from independent developers and shorter titles from well-known game …
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Angel Ass Kicking In New “Legion” Clip
Yahoo posted this new clip from Legion – 40 seconds of what looks to be the makings of an epic battle between ex-angel Michael (Paul Bettany) and still-winged Gabriel (Kevin Durand). I was worried that some of the action would look a little, well … girly due to the volume of male actors flopping around in wings, but from the looks of …
Is a Time Machine Really Possible?
Time travel is a perennial favorite trope of science fiction and has been ever since I went back to the 1890s and mentioned the idea to H.G. Wells.
Who hasn’t fantasized about it, in one form or another?… to see dinosaurs with your own two eyes, or to tell your younger self to invest in Google, or to suggest to JFK that perhaps a …
Origins: Eli Roth, the “Hostel” Guy
The Hostel director and Inglourious Basterds co-star talks to TIME contributing nerd Gilbert Cruz about his creative influences.
At NYU film school in the early ’90’s, Eli Roth decorated his entire dorm floor as a shrine to Reservoir Dogs. “I thought it was the most important American film to come along in 50 years, the movie that …